This is a new edition of Elizabeth Gaskell`s witty and poignant comedy of early-Victorian life in a country town. A lively and up-to-date introduction by Charlotte Mitchell discusses the originality and subtlety of the book`s treatment of women`s experience. - ;`Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women.`In this witty and poignant comedy o...